My guess is that they'd want to build a reactor which is basically a bucket for billiar-ball sized spheres containing (among others) tiny pellets of U-235 and carbon.
Apparently, this design is extremely safe, and it looks quite scalable to me too.
Maybe it tries to connect to port 707 to try to determine if the remote host has already been "patched"? However, this is pure speculation.
I haven't RTFA, but since they know the worm self-uninstalls after a certain date, I'm assuming they already know, or will know soon, what the port 707 is for.
Question: what relevance does military strength have in this situation? China is trying to boost its own economy by using domestic products. Good for them. Can't blame them.
Computer: "Press A if you want Calculon to go to the laser battle in the special effects warehouse. Press B if you want Calculon to re-check his paperwork."
Wernstrom: "Face it, Farnsworth, you're over the hill. It's time to leave science to the hundred-twenty-year-olds." Farnsworth: "You young turks think you know everything! I was inventing things when you were barely turning senile." Wernstrom: "Haha! Go home before you embarrass yourself, old man! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a nap before the ceremonies."
Or the old Macintosh computer on the robot planet in Futurama, who froze up during judgement, prompting the jury to issue various tips, such as power cycling:-)
Step 1: create a lame knockoff product Step 2: Slashdotter "reverse engineers" it Step 3: Sue aforementioned Slashdotter under the DMCA (Step 3 is ??? if he's outside of the USA) Step 4: Profit!
I was at a lecture Rodney Brooks gave when he was in Amsterdam almost a year ago. He explained what kind of research he did, and how he incorporated it in his Roomba product.
Obviously, this RoboSweep thing is a complete fake. It looks like it's advertised on those stupid home shopping programmes (see the official website, the "As Seen On TV" blurb on the packaging, etc).
This leads me to reinforce my suspicion that all products promoted at home shopping programmes are fake and ineffective.
I don't doubt most Slashdotters are like-minded in this respect, but those who know people who order that crap, might want to tell them about the fake cleaning machine, and how that is probably only the tip of the iceberg (crap-berg?).
It actually reminds me of a toy car I used to play with in my youth, that had exactly such a rotating thing with small wheels on it, so the battery-powered car seemed to move in a semi-random fashion. I didn't find that very intruiging even at the age of five.
If you really want to get a cleaning robot, get a Roomba.
With a bit of luck, they'll sell just eight of those RoboSweeps -- to Dr. Zoidberg!;-)
"I actually forgot this week was our last episode. I scheduled something else -- a meeting of my math club," Cohen says on the phone from Los Angeles. "This group of TV writers, we're interested in math and we get together to talk about it. But I'm sure I'll be able to race home to watch it."
Futurama was without a doubt the greatest and funniest tv series I have ever seen. I'm also not surprised about the amount of Futurama quotes I see in sigs here on Slashdot. Check my friends list, most of them have them:-)
Maybe if it took a player enough time to get some items worth some cash, then there'd be more people willing to buy them to avoid the "work" involved in getting those items?
Just like a farmer used to spend his time tending to his fields, and other people used to buy the vegetables off him to avoid the work involved in tending to those fields?
Some machines _can_ boot from USB devices, some can't - it depends on your hardware (BIOS issues). Some USB pen drives can boot only from Windows machines, others can boot from Windows or Linux. Not sure about Mac.
Erm, what exactly do you mean with Windows machines here? And why would you want to boot from an operating system? I thought booting was usually into an OS?
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Fry: "You're cute!"
Lucy Bot: "You're cute!"
Fry: "No, you're cute!"
Lucy Bot: "No, you're cute!"
Prof. Farnsworth: "Oh my god! She's stuck in an infinite loop and he's just stupid!"
Looks like their layout change has worked for them...
I wonder what Perl code would look like in Greek ;-)
My guess is that they'd want to build a reactor which is basically a bucket for billiar-ball sized spheres containing (among others) tiny pellets of U-235 and carbon.
Apparently, this design is extremely safe, and it looks quite scalable to me too.
Maybe it tries to connect to port 707 to try to determine if the remote host has already been "patched"? However, this is pure speculation.
I haven't RTFA, but since they know the worm self-uninstalls after a certain date, I'm assuming they already know, or will know soon, what the port 707 is for.
Question: what relevance does military strength have in this situation? China is trying to boost its own economy by using domestic products. Good for them. Can't blame them.
Do you really expect this would cause a war?
In Communist China, SCO gets billed by government! ;-)
In the interactive cinema...
Computer: "Press A if you want Calculon to go to the laser battle in the special effects warehouse. Press B if you want Calculon to re-check his paperwork."
Fry presses A.
Computer: "You have selected B."
Fry: "No I haven't!"
Computer: "I'm almost positive you did!"
(From a pretty old Futurama episode!)
Remember the episode "The 30% Iron Chef"?
Bender: "I'm 30% iron, I can't lose!"
Wernstrom: "Face it, Farnsworth, you're over the hill. It's time to leave science to the hundred-twenty-year-olds."
Farnsworth: "You young turks think you know everything! I was inventing things when you were barely turning senile."
Wernstrom: "Haha! Go home before you embarrass yourself, old man! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a nap before the ceremonies."
(C&Ped from Gotfuturama.com)
Or the old Macintosh computer on the robot planet in Futurama, who froze up during judgement, prompting the jury to issue various tips, such as power cycling :-)
The parent poster was talking about the knockoff RoboSweep toy, not the Roomba.
Shh! Don't give them any dangerous ideas!
Step 1: create a lame knockoff product
Step 2: Slashdotter "reverse engineers" it
Step 3: Sue aforementioned Slashdotter under the DMCA
(Step 3 is ??? if he's outside of the USA)
Step 4: Profit!
I was at a lecture Rodney Brooks gave when he was in Amsterdam almost a year ago. He explained what kind of research he did, and how he incorporated it in his Roomba product.
;-)
Obviously, this RoboSweep thing is a complete fake. It looks like it's advertised on those stupid home shopping programmes (see the official website, the "As Seen On TV" blurb on the packaging, etc).
This leads me to reinforce my suspicion that all products promoted at home shopping programmes are fake and ineffective.
I don't doubt most Slashdotters are like-minded in this respect, but those who know people who order that crap, might want to tell them about the fake cleaning machine, and how that is probably only the tip of the iceberg (crap-berg?).
It actually reminds me of a toy car I used to play with in my youth, that had exactly such a rotating thing with small wheels on it, so the battery-powered car seemed to move in a semi-random fashion. I didn't find that very intruiging even at the age of five.
If you really want to get a cleaning robot, get a Roomba.
With a bit of luck, they'll sell just eight of those RoboSweeps -- to Dr. Zoidberg!
Yes, if you're a kernel developer, SCO is pirating your work.
The Dutch Fox affiliate (V8) has approximately this business plan:
while($income_from_commercials > $cost_of_reality_show + $overhead) {
show_reality_show;
show_commercials;
$money += $income_from_commercials - $cost_of_reality_shows - $overhead;
}
Would you care for some "champagun"?
(I posted the parent post too soon, sorry.)
:-)
I used this quote to indicate why Futurama has so many inside jokes that appeal to the Slashdot audience
(posting as a reply to my post to avoid it being drowned in the masses of replies to the main article)
http://www.canoe.ca/ Television/aug8_future-sun.html
Futurama was without a doubt the greatest and funniest tv series I have ever seen. I'm also not surprised about the amount of Futurama quotes I see in sigs here on Slashdot. Check my friends list, most of them have them :-)
Bite my shiny metal... OH NOOO!
No, I think it's because ThizLinux is Chinese, it defaults to the Chinese locale.
He can get his drive fixed for only $200?
(Explanation: his drive is an 80 gig drive, which costs around $100.)
Let me guess, you are a pink squid-man? ;-)
Maybe if it took a player enough time to get some items worth some cash, then there'd be more people willing to buy them to avoid the "work" involved in getting those items?
Just like a farmer used to spend his time tending to his fields, and other people used to buy the vegetables off him to avoid the work involved in tending to those fields?
Erm, what exactly do you mean with Windows machines here? And why would you want to boot from an operating system? I thought booting was usually into an OS?